The Canada Revenue Agency will be issuing the long-promised 'grocery rebate' payments to eligible Canadians on July 5. The food-inflation focused affordability measure is set to roll out to approximately 11 million low- and modest-income Canadians. Here's how much money those eligible can expect to ...
The government needs to put it big boy pants on and start putting windfall taxes and tell people like the Westons to break up their businesses and sell them. It's not normal to have one single family have so much power over something that's so basic like our means to fucking feed ourselves and profit so much from it.
They’re gonna get right on it! Once they “fix” everything else that’s wrong, but really they’re just going to pass the blame like a bad game of hot potato.
Giving away money instead of fixing the root causes. Not a big fan of this but at least they're not giving away money and cutting services like Dougie.
It's like you see a starving homeless person on the side of the street and you give them a relief cracker like it's going to change their life and make it so they're not hungry ever again.
These types of rebates are some of the least effective uses of government money.
This and tax rebates. They could have literally pumped the money into a crown corp grocery and it would have been more effective.
It's the same thing with the stupid EV rebates. Pump that money into a subway/train system and you'll get fewer emissions and less traffic. Maybe get VIA to finally get onto HSR.
Can someone explain to me how I, a 25 year old student living alone, making less than $30k a year, don't qualify for this?
This is also a stupid "solution." We can't just keep handing out $200 everytime people bring up the impact of inflation. Stop the inflation! Companies are just increasing their profit margins while consumers get less and less.
It's based on your 2021 income, I believe, did you file for that year? Media has also been using the term "roll out" in articles which to me implies possible delays (CRA advises you wait 10 days before following up), did you check your CRA account to see if it's listed under your credits?
I mean I'm not attacking people with lower means, but this is the stupidest plan ever. Also, as a high income earner, I love how this signifies that I'm not affected by inflation, when I certainly am. My groceries are up 10-20% too, just like everyone else's. What is the government doing about that?
I wish they'd take these millions or billions, and set up a consumer protection bureau, instead of giving people a few hundred bucks, which isn't going to fix the problem or really do much. If anything, it's behavior that just leads to more inflation. the Liberals are just as bad as the conservatives, won't go after the real problem, because it would involve attacking their bros.
My groceries are up 10-20% too, just like everyone else’s.
I wish! I've had to stop buying several staple foods because prices went up 35-70% in some cases.
And to add insult to injury, packages got smaller, so I'd have to buy double to feed the same number of people (and pay more per package!).
Not only do I think that grocery stores should be forced to refund "excessive profits", but they should be heavily fined and someone up top should spend time in jail for stealing from the public.
While I agree that this won't fix the issue and that the government should look into solving the issue at its root instead of throwing money at the problem and hope it'll go away on its own, to say that this measure that is being put in place as an emergency relief for (very) low income folks is the same as telling us, higher income earners, that we're not affected by inflation is a false equivalence/borderline a bad faith argument.
I don't want to assume anything about your situation, but you did qualify yourself as a high income earner and, so, keeping this in mind, I'll use myself as an example: I'm not rich by any means, but I make a good salary. I, too, feel the effects of inflation/shrinkation on my monthly budget. But my spending power, while significantly reduced, is still much higher than the people who are being targeted by this emergency relief. To say otherwise would be hypocritical.
Having to choose a no brand name over the good stuff or realizing that I can't justify buying meat this month is absolutely not the same thing as having to choose between eating this week or putting money on my bus card so that I can go to work/keep a roof over my head.
No one is saying that higher income folks don't have to make sacrifices. But to imply that our needs are the same as people who are basically struggling to exist right now just seem a tad... Disingenuous. Just sayin'
I'm not sure, but I can think of two reasons for this:
Being a single parent is more expensive than being a couple. Because you can't share costs with another person, a greater proportion of your income goes to required expenses like food, housing, and utilities.
Along those lines, food is cheaper per person the more people you buy for. Buying in bulk is a huge savings. This is presumably why they give you more money for the first child than for each subsequent child.
It's different tax years. The amount is based on the Jan '23 GST credit you received, but whether you actually qualify is determined by your 2021 filings, so there are a few weird cases where you would get one but not the other.